Stove for heating street-cars



(No Model.)

M. K. BOWEN.

sTovE FOR HEATING STREET CARS. No. 519,442. PatentedMay 8, 1894.

' lNl/ENTUH UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MENARD K. BOWEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STOVE FOR HEATIN G STREET-CARS.

[SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iiatent No. 519,442, dated May 8, 1894.

Application filed October 14 1893. Serial No. 488,195- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MENAED K. BOWEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illi- 5 nois, have invented anew and useful Stove for Heating Street-Oars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the heating of street cars and the object of my invention is to to provide a method of securing stove casing to the car seat so that neither the casing nor the car seat need be cut in placing it in any street car. I obtain these objects by the arrangement of parts illustrated in the accom- 1,5 panying drawings, in which-- Figure (1) is a vertical section of the stove casing and car seat, showing a side elevation of the stove. Fig. (2) is a front view. Fig. (3) is a horizontal section of stove and casing 20 showing by dotted lines possible adjustment of braces or ties from casing to car seat back.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The stove is fastened to thebottom of the 2 5 casing by bolts or screws, and the stove and easing as a Whole is then fastened in place by screws through the metal plate (D) and into the car seat front which plate supports the weight of casing and stove and holds 0 them in place a little above the car seat; and by the braces (G) which are shifted around the circular back of easing until they will fit the particular width of seat, and are screwed onto the casingand then onto the top orback of seat, where'they serve to steady and hold 3 5 the casing and stove in place.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In street car heaters the combination of 40 I a circular back casing with the braces (G) which where they come in contact with the casing of the stove possess aform corresponding to that of said casing and which may be. moved forward or backward around the arc of the casing to fasten it to any car seatback of whatever width substantially as set forth.

2. In street car heaters the combination of a stove and casing and braces (G) which where they come in contact with the casing go, 

